The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

I think I made you up inside my head.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.